Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
Yuu Koito has never really understood the concept of romantic feelings well enough to experience them herself. So after becoming friends with the student council member Touko Nanami, who has been the recipient of more than a few love confessions, she decides to ask her about them. To Yuu’s surprise, Touko responds by confessing to her.
A highschool yuri romance with moderate comedic aspects and a small amount of drama.
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Tokyo’s “Himote House” is inhabited by the three Himote sisters along with two of the youngest’s former classmates, Minamo Arai and Tae Hongou. All five young women have relationship troubles… and all five also have supernatural abilities.
An absurdist, often dialog-driven, romance-themed daily life comedy. Note that each episode concludes with an ad libbed slumber party segment.
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Students from each of two feuding countries both attended the Dahlia Academy Boarding School. Yet despite their homelands’ hostilities, Romio Inuzuka of the Black Doggy dorm and Juliet Percia of the White Cats’ have fallen in love and must now do their best to hide their relationship from the other students at the school.
A reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet as a school-life romantic comedy with periodic bursts of drama. It features a large amount of slapstick humor alongside secondary action and ecchi elements.
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Romance. ‘Romance’ means different things to different people. Follow the thoughts of Aiko, Moe, Yukari, and Miwako, each at different point in life, as they experience pivotal moments in their relationships.
A picture drama collection of romance-focused slice of life vignettes.
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Serious, quiet, and detached, Haruki Shiga couldn’t be more different from the outgoing and energetic Sakura Yamauchi, and in fact they’ve never even talked to one another before. Yet a chance meeting at the hospital results in him learning about her terminal illness… a revelation he shows no reaction to whatsoever. Intrigued by this unexpected response, she decides to spend however long she has left hanging out with him.
An odd-couple romance with both comedic and dramatic elements. While primarily focused on mortality and personal growth, it also touches on a variety of other philosophical themes.
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Three cities, three people: Ming Xiao walking the streets of Beijing, homesick for the countryside. A model on the verge of retirement living in Guangzhou, Lin Yi. And finally Mo Li, an architect working in Shanghai consumed by memories of a childhood friend.
A set of short stories with themes of current day dissatisfaction. The first focuses on food, the second on workplace drama, and the third on past childhood romance.
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Now in their senior year of high school, Yuuta and Rikka’s relationship has remained stable despite the complications caused by her chuuni behavior. Touka’s sudden announcement that she’s moving to Italy and taking Rikka with her however sets off a panic resulting in a plan to convince Touka that the two of them have eloped.
A romantic comedy with both travelogue elements and a few imaginary action scenes. It’s a follow-up to Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren which can be watched as a stand-alone, though some of the impact will be lost without prior familiarity with the characters.
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Long-lived and perpetually youthful in appearance, the Iolph keep to themselves and tend to avoid contact with others. A practice which does not save them from the invasion of their homeland and the abduction of their people at the hands of an empire looking to fortify its bloodline. The orphan Maquia manages to escape the assault, and while wandering aimlessly happens to stumble upon a baby whose parents were killed by bandits. A baby she decides to attempt to raise as her own.
A character drama with minor slice of life elements, an action-focused subplot involving the empire, and a re-occurring thread of romance.
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Mizore Yoroizuka has quietly followed Nozomi Kasaki for years, never quite able to take that last step and fully express how she feels. It’s on one morning just like any other that Nozomi relates the story of ‘Liz and the Blue Bird’… hinting that it just may have some parallels to their relationship.
A stand-alone side story, taking place after the main Hibike! Euphonium series, focused on longing. It alternates between a conventional art style and one resembling a watercolor storybook for Liz’s segments.
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